JJ Wolverine @jjwolverine@computerfairi.es
Your favorite pretend wolverine.
Joined Apr 2018
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on "scaling mastodon is impossible"
https://lucumr.pocoo.org/2022/11/14/scaling-mastodon/
i think the author has good & interesting points, and i was glad to read a more serious counterpoint than the usual "twitter sucks but the fediverse is confusing"
but there are some things i disagree with:
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Once again, for the new folks in the peanut gallery, if on Android, try Tusky. If iOS, pay the $2 for Toot! The official app is, well, ass. The folks who boost this will underscore how true this is.
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Gonna put this on my desk when I leave work tomorrow.
Got some company from this v chill lil fella while waiting to smog my car. It's the smog dog!
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A Linux audio driver walks into a bar
Bartender: "what would you like?"
pulseaudio[18814]: No object for name "alsa_output.pci-0000_04_00.1.hdmi-stereo"
Bartender: "I can't hear you?"
pulseaudio[18814]: core-util.c: Failed to connect to system bus: Did not receive a reply
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Recently on 
I like especially the foot note at the end!
(I'm pretty sure it's just a (btw good) joke. But you can really buy that for a one-time purchase of $7.99.)
It was great to see everyone at PawCon this weekend!!! Buuuut MAN i had forgotten how rough it is on my social batteries to try to see old friends and think of something to say. The next day I thought of like 30 better conversation topics than "uhhhh hi good to see you boy it's been a long time" that I wish I'd said. Next time I need to like prepare a powerpoint deck or something. lol
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Food, multilingual pun
I've finally looked up how empanadas got their name
they're em 'in' + pan 'bread' + ada 'past participle'
so they're embreaded
american banks: "Listen, i know we talk every day, but I'm just feeling anxious about, you know, us. i think there's something you may not be telling me? Your address, your phone number... even though you've lived in the same place for 10 years and had your phone for 20... I just feel like these might have changed and you aren't telling me. Also what's your income?"
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Whisper (the AI based transcription software) is Very Good and Pretty Fast and also free and able to run locally without a ton of ridiculous work.
It generates passable subtitles very quickly. There are some errors, but they're the kind of errors you'd get from a transcription service as well.
It'll also do translations.
Based on my efforts so far, this means I can generate passable english subtitles for the media we're producing, which we can then massage in to Production Ready subtitles, with very little effort. Passable files in 5 minutes or less.
But, more impressively, I was able to get Usable subtitles, in english, for non-english-language stuff, at the same rate.
Just ... push button, get translated subtitles from audio.
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I'm continuing our increasingly expensive tradition of sourcing a 2009 to serve with our anniversary dinner. Celebrating a lucky 13 years together with @tanakiwah today! It's complex and tangy and, thanks to some careful handling, not yet turned to vinegar. Metaphors!
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furries: haha we run the internet
also furries: we will cling to furaffinity until our dying breath. may it never change and never advance. it is the ancient alter around which we pray and/or jack off.
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Let's talk about #Doordash and how it sucks, from the driver's perspective. Their app uses a bunch of tricks to help the driver get to their destination and contact the orderer along the way, but it's BRITTLE. When it works well it's fine, when it doesn't, it's AWFUL.
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Study confirms it. The floating garbage patch in the Pacific is nearly all fishing gear. It's not consumer waste.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-022-16529-0
Eat less fish, their populations are crashing anyway
getting a new phone now entails living through a month-long trickle of stupid popup ads sprinkled across every app and screen like "Would you like to learn more about THE CONCEPT OF TEXT MESSAGES". Like dude chill I didn't get amnesia, please let me just use my phone
Your favorite pretend wolverine.
Joined Apr 2018
